PRODUCER: Smallholder farms

PROCESSING: Beneficio San Diego Mills

REGION: Tarrazu

TASTING NOTES: Milk chocolate, red apple, cane sugar

ELEVATION: 4,000 - 5,750 ft

ROAST: Medium

PROCESS: Honey

VARIETIES: Cattura and Catuai

Farm/Co-op Notes: This coffee was grown by small holder farms in the Tarrazu region. These farms deliver their ripe coffee cherries to Beneficio San Diego Mills for processing. The mill was established in 1888 and works with producers to ensure good community relations and sustainable production. Beneficio San Diego is also the most modern mill in Costa Rica.

The Tarrazu region has the highest elevation coffee farms in Costa Rica and they benefit from a dry season during harvest. At an average size of 2 hectares per farm, a community of farmers delivered their coffees to the San Diego Mill to produce this offering.

The honey process started in Costa Rica and has since been used by several other countries. The process is a mix between the natural and washed processes. The coffee cherries are de-pulped but some of the fruit mucilage (coffee honey) is left on the coffee seed for the drying phase. This process gives the coffee a sweetness that resembles a natural processed coffee.

Please allow 2-5 days for your order to process.

LOCAL DELIVERY (Wednesday) within 5 miles of Reading, PA 19606. Order by Monday for Wed delivery.

FARMERS MARKET PICKUP can be selected as a shipping option once the address field has been completed at checkout.

If you would like to check on your order you may email us anytime at hillroadcoffeeroasters@gmail.com.